Half term in England is in the period as the Carnavalsvakantie in Holland, hence we stay for a week in our home in the Netherlands. Sunday evening I had a great time tangling together with my mother. We both prepared 2 3-Z tiles by cutting them, and mixed glued them together, and started to tangle. With those 4 tiles it is possible to create some great mosaics. One better then the other. In this post I will share some of them with you, hoping to inspire you to do the same, with friend or familymember. The second batch of two tiles we did.....

Rumpus is a great new pattern published by Rick and Maria in the project pack 2 12 days before Christmas. I made a monotangle Zendala with Rumpus, and on a tan tile I combined Rumpus with the other new child on the block Toodles.

Finally I took the time to make the Diva Challenge again. Making a string by tracing objects is always fun. The objects I took are: My reading glasses, a cornerpons, a bonefolder and a box lid.Pretty cool string don't you think? I wouldn't have drawn this ever freehand!

Day 8: Reticula and FragmentsUse a reticulum and fragments in your drawing. I was thinking about my reticulum, and didn't want to do a regular reticulum. So I came up with drawing a reticula with squares building it like the Fibonaci order. Drew the spiral within the squares, and filled every square with Phicops. Dag 9: Glas in Lood

Day 9: Stained GlassBe inspired by stained glass. Use bright colors to shine through your window. For some reason I thought about Mandalas right away. I drew half a circle and designed my stained glass, colored with derwent ink pencils, a little bit of hand lettering and another day of the Zenuari challenge is finished.Dag 10: Nooit eerder gebruikte tangles.

Day 10: Never used before tangles. A great way to explore new tangles. I looked to the last new patterns on tangle patterns.com and choose counterpoint from Milde Weiss and PS23 from Susan Pundt. Looking through my entangle books I found a great tangle named Amer from Maria Vennekens, just because I love woven tangles. Dag 11: Organisch en strakke lijnen, een perfect duo.

Day 11: Organic tangles in combination with straight line tangles: a perfect duet!Drawing organic tangles.... no problem to me, I love them. The patterns with the straight lines a bit challenging. I wasn't at home, and couldn't look up some, so I kept it simple to combine pookroot/pookleaf and a small joke, together with hybrid and W2.

Zenuari day 6: Blind String.Draw you string with closed eyes and start tangling (of course with your eyes opened). I traced a 3Z-tile in my little sketchbook and drew a big string over it. Once opening my eyes I could only think of Mooka to go partially over my string. So Mooka became the starting tangle of this days challenge.

Draw with different nibsizes was todays challenge. I did this already in day 3 to make weighted lines. Hence I took another look at todays challenge. I decided to draw with different kind of pens, and ofcours they have all different nib/line sizes, so I think it will be okay to do for day 7. I use my old favorite black micron 01 and added very pinkish neon color with the sakura glaze pen. I never have used this kind of pen before. The ink doesn't get into the paper but makes a layer on top of it as if there is a drop of fluid on the paper. It feels like plastic. The other pink I added was the stardus gelpen. I love those because of the glitters in the color. It was funny to draw with these different pens in one drawing.

Happy New Year and all the best wishes for 2018! It has been a while since I wrote a post here. And one of the goals I want to achieve is writing a blogpost once a week about the creative things I have done. So at the end of 2018 my list should have at least 52 posts.

I started my creative journey with Zenuari. In the FB group Zenuari 2018 (from CZT Anoeska Waardenburg) you can download an E-book with great challenges for every day in Januari. Fun and great variation in the challenges with Zentangle as leading star.

This weeks Diva challenge is hosted by my dutch colleague Marguerite Samama. Her work is beutiful, and I admire her work because she can turn straight lines, linear tangles, and fragments into beautiful elegant tiles! I wasn't surprised by her choice of fragment D1. At the moment I am in Crotatia with my family enyoing vacation, and have just a gew artsuplies with me. I took a tile with. Offe stain, and started to tangle the D1 fragment. As I M more a swirly whirly kind of tangler, I added echo-s and a bit of ansu to complete my tile!